Full Metal Jacket(1987)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.



The Messenger(2009)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 79

An American soldier struggles with an ethical dilemma when he becomes involved with a widow of a fallen officer.



No Man's Land(2001)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 76

Bosnia and Herzegovina during 1993 at the time of the heaviest fighting between the two warring sides. Two soldiers from opposing sides in the conflict, Nino and Ciki, become trapped in no man's land, whilst a third soldier becomes a living booby trap.



Bloody Sunday(2002)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 80

A dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972.



The Monuments Men(2014)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their owners.



Patton(1970)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 71

The World War II phase of the career of the controversial American general, George S. Patton.



The Men Who Stare at Goats(2009)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A reporter in Iraq might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady, a guy who claims to be a former member of the U.S. Army's New Earth Army, a unit that employs paranormal powers in their missions.



The Army of Shadows(1969)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 80

An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France.



The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare(2024)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 68

The British military recruits a small group of highly skilled soldiers to strike against German forces behind enemy lines during World War II.



Enemy at the Gates(2001)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 65

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad.



The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas(2008)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 66

Set during WWII, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.



The Book Thief(2013)

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Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 66

While subjected to the horrors of World War II Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. In the basement of her home, a Jewish refugee is being protected by her adoptive parents.



Quo vadis, Aida?(2020)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 77

Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp.



Guy Ritchie's The Covenant(2023)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 68

During the war in Afghanistan, a local interpreter risks his own life to carry an injured sergeant across miles of grueling terrain.



Sisu: Road to Revenge(2025)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A man returns to dismantle his family's house, where they were murdered in war, to rebuild it elsewhere. When the killer, a Red Army commander, tracks him down, a brutal cross-country pursuit begins.



Windtalkers(2002)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 66

Two U.S. Marines in World War II are assigned to protect Navajo Marines, who use their native language as an unbreakable radio cypher.



La vita è bella(1997)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 62

When an open-minded Jewish librarian and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.



MASH(1970)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 66

The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.



The Water Diviner(2014)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 65

An Australian man travels to Turkey after the Battle of Gallipoli to try and locate his three missing sons.



Under the Shadow(2016)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 75

As a mother and daughter struggle to cope with the terrors of the post-revolution, war-torn Tehran of the 1980s, a mysterious evil begins to haunt their home.




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